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UNITED STATES ATnNT Orrrcn.

MARSHAL D. PLATNER, OF VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA TERRITORY.

VEGETABLE GRATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,595, dated April19, 1887.

Application filed July 15, 1886.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, MARsHAL D. PLATNER,

of Virginia City, in the county of Madison and Territory of Montana,have invented a new and Improved Vegetable'Grater, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

the object being to provide a grater that may 'be easily manipulated,which, may be cheaply same, and Fig.3 is a sectional view taken onlinear so of Fig. l.

The body of the grater illustrated in the drawings above referred toconsists of a boxlike structure, 10, formed by uniting'two vertical endstrips, 11, by means of upper side strips or bars, 12. \Vithin the boxthere is mounted a shaft, 15, which carries a coneshaped block, 16, tothe base of which there is secured a grater, 17, said grater consistingof a metallic cup-shaped attachment having either outwardly-flaring orcylindrical sides.

The roughened surface necessary to grate the material to be operatedupon is produced by puncturing a series of apertures, as'2, through theside wall of the grater,thus making sharpened projections which extendoutward beyond the general contour of the peripheral face of the grater.

To the tops of the vertical stripsll, I secure a sectional cover, 20,one of the sections of said cover being rigidly connected to the tops ofthe strips 11, while the other section (shown at 3) rides upon extendingarms 4, and is held against the section 5 (which is the rigidlymonntedsection) by springs 6, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

My invention relates to vegetable-graters,

In this cover 20 there is an Serial No. 208,114. (No model.)

opening, 21, the under side of the cover being slightly cut away, asshown at 22, Fig. 3, to accommodate the grater. One of the sections isprovided with downwardly-extending projections 1, that prevent theentrance of material which would tend to clog the machine.

Upon the shaft 15 there is arranged a small Having thus fully describedmy invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1 1. Ina grater, the combination, with a shaft and a cup-shaped grater thereon,of a coneshaped block on the shaft, within the grater, andabutting withits large end against the inner closed end of the said grater,substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with-the grater and its frame, of the top formed ofthe fixed sect-ion 5, the horizontal rods 4 4, the movable section 3,and the springs 6 6 on said rods, a feed-opening. 21, being formed inthe top between the said sections, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with the frame and the grater, of the cover 20,having an opening, 21, and formed of the fixed section 5, the horizontalrods 4 4, the spring-pressed section 3 on said rods, and thedownwardly-extending pins 1 on the under side of one section and extending adjacent to the grater, substantially as set orth.

BARCLAY J ONES, J AMES MoALLIs'rER.

